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You may not be aware that police officers across the country are currently able to have sexual contact with sex workers before arresting them. Don’t worry, you aren’t alone if you weren’t privy. Apparently 90 percent of people in Alaska didn’t know either. Which makes it all the more shocking that police in the northern-most […]

Young activists and organizers in the United States are often criticized by opponents who suggest that these young people are only focused on their own liberation. But, the truth is: many young Black and Brown activists and organizers have a lens to the ways that our colonial history and the anti-Blackness we experience in the […]

It’s happened again. Exactly one year after Philando Castile was killed by a police officer, another Black man suffers the same fate. One man is dead and the only witness was put in jail and charged with the attempted murder of the officer. 

Friends and loved ones of Bakari Henderson are left shocked after the recent college grad was killed during a drunken brawl in Greece this weekend. They were especially surprised because no one close to him can even imagine him being anything other than a “peacemaker.”

District Judge Sharon Holmes has declared a shocking third mistrial in nine months in the case of an Oklahoma father who shot his daughter’s boyfriend in 2014. Former Tulsa police officer Shannon Kepler doesn’t deny shooting Jeremey Lake because he feels he did so in self-defense. However, despite his claims that Lake was armed, no weapon […]

By Kristian Davis Bailey   Last December, I visited Brazil for the first time to attend the Transregional Summit: The Arab Spring Meets Black Lives Matter conference at the Federal Fluminense University  (UFF) outside Rio de Janeiro. It was designed to put Black Lives Matter in conversation with Arab activists from Egypt and Palestine, and social […]

One of the country’s most liberal states is under fire for a worrisome trend. A recently released report from the state’s Justice Department finds that hate crimes against Black people have risen by as much as 11.2 percent in California.

Recent research shows that Black people are moving to the South for new opportunities from every other region of the U.S. – especially millennials. This trend has been written about before, but was recently highlighted when Reniqua Allen wrote an op-ed for the New York Times entitled “Racism Is Everywhere, So Why Not Move South?”

The governor of Minnesota is aiming to get the damage control started a year after Philando Castile was killed by Officer Jeronimo Yanez and weeks after Yanez was acquitted. Gov. Mark Dayton announced that he’d like to name the state’s Police Officer Standards and Training Board after Castile, according to MPR.

By Sherronda Brown *This essay includes spoilers and discussion of sexual violence. At some point in the midst of filming The Beguiled on the same plantation where Beyoncé’s Lemonade was filmed, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning attempted to pay homage to the singer through a gesture they no doubt assumed would garner celebration and envy […]

The members of the Kardashian/Jenner clan have a knack for sucking the talent and public notoriety out of the Black people they choose to associate with. It now appears that even those who passed away aren’t safe from their Space Jam-like superpowers.

In a perfect career move, the Ph.D student who rapped his dissertation is now a professor of hip-hop. A. D. Carson graduated from the University of Clemson with a Ph.D in rhetorics, communication and information design in 2017 and made headlines by releasing a 34-track entitled “Owning My Masters: The Rhetoric’s of Rhymes and Revolutions.” Carson’s official […]